Display rack clip



Jan. 13, 1959 A. DREYFUS, JR 2,868,335

' DISPLAY RACK CLIP Filed July 11, 1955 As/7er' DkeyfuqJr.

A [tor-nag United States Patent DISPLAY RACK CLIP Asher Dreyfus, Jr.,Dallas, Tex.

Application July 11, 1955, Serial No. 521,080

1 Claim. (Cl. 211-71) This invention relates to a display rack and ismore particularly directed to a novel construction of clip forreleasably securing packaged goods on the stand.

An object of the invention is the provision of a clip so constructedthat a series of clips may be mounted upon standards of the rack atvarious horizontal levels and at opposite sides of the standard, eachclip having a gripping jaw and .an integral, spring tensioned lever formaintaining the jaw in contacting relation with the standard therebyreleasably supporting an article between the jaw and standard.

More specifically, it is an object of the invention to provide a clipfor a display rack which is formed from two pieces of steel wire, one ofwhich is bent into the form of a substantially circular loop to define ajaw cooperable with a standard of a rack for releasably gripping anarticle for display, said wire further being bent to provide a leveroffset with respect to the jaw and supporting standard, the lever havinga transversely disposed arm engaging the standard for maintaining thejaw in contacting engagement with the standard and the other of saidwires providing the means for pivotally securing the loop to thestandard.

Additional objects, advantages and features of invention will beapparent from the following description, considered in conjunction withthe accompanying drawing, wherein,

Figure l is a side elevation of a display stand equipped with thearticle supporting clips.

Figure 2 is a front view in elevation of the stand shown in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a top plan view of the stand on a reduced scale.

Figure 4 is an enlarged fragmentary side view of a portion of the standshowing a clip applied thereto.

Figure 5 is an enlarged fragmentary front elevation of a portion ofstand and clips installed thereon.

Figure 6 is an edge view of the jaw and lever detached from the stand.

Figure 7 is a plan view thereof, and

Figure 8 is a cross section on the line 8--% of Figure 2.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, 10 designates a base formedof wire and of rectangular shape. A U-shaped rack 11 also formed of wireis bent to provide parallel legs 12, the bight portion 13 constitutingthe top of the rack and may have a spring clip 14 for support of anadvertising card. The lower free ends of the leg 12 are bent at rightangles to provide feet 15 which are welded or otherwise secured to sidebars 16 of the base 10.

Upon the legs 12, a plurality of clips 17 are secured at spacedhorizontal levels, the clips being so engaged upon the legs to presentan article gripping clip upon opposite sides thereof to more readilydisplay packages engaged thereby.

Attention is now invited to Figures 6 and 7 of the drawing for anunderstanding of the construction of the clip ice 17, and while for thesake of illustration, the clip is shown and described as substantiallycircular in form, it will be obvious that the clip may be otherwiseformed, the loop of the clip may be rectangular, square, elliptical oreven triangularly shaped.

The clip 17 is formed from a single strand of suitable gauge steel wire,the major portion of which is bent to form an open substantially annularloop 18, one end of the strand being bent at right angles to the innerperiphery of the loop to provide a transverse bar 19'. The opposite end20 of the loop terminates adjacent the transverse bar 19. There are thusprovided upper and lower loop portions 21 and 22 and as clearly shown inFigures 1 and 4, these loop portions are given an angular bend in thesame direction, the upper loop 21 having a slightly greater bend thanthe lower loop 22, for a purpose presently to be explained.

At suitably spaced points upon the legs 12 and at opposite sides of saidlegs, a pivot bar 23 is welded to the legs 12 as at 24. Each pivot bar23 extends transversely across the lower loop portion 22 and the ends ofthe pivot bars 22 are bent in the form of a loop 25 so as to embracerespective sides of the lower loop 22, the transverse bar 19 of the loop21 occupying a position above the pivot bar 23 and in contactingengagement with the leg 12 and by reason of the fact that the upper loop21 has a greater bend than the lower loop, the loop portion 21 will bespaced outwardly from the leg 12 to which it is mounted, with the lowerloop portion in spring tensioned contact engagement with the leg 12;, asclearly shown in Figures 1 and 4.

With the clips 17 secured upon the legs 12 as described and it isdesired to secure packaged goods to the clips, it is only necessary topress the loop portion 21 toward the leg 12 whereupon the lower loop 22will swing upon the pivot bar 23 so as to move the loop 22 away from theleg 12 permitting a package to be inserted between the leg 12 and theloop 22. When the loop portion 22 was moved away from the leg 12, thepivot bar 23 was under spring tension so that when the upper loop 21 isreleased, the lower loop will move the package against the leg 12 and isthereby secured in suspended position upon the leg of the display rack.The packages may be readily released by moving the loop 21 toward theleg. The loop 21 may thus be readily considered as an operating leverand the loop 22 as a gripping jaw.

While I have shown and described a preferred form of the device, this isby way of illustration only, and I consider as my own all suchmodifications in construction as fairly fall within the scope of theappended claim.

I claim:

A clip for a display rack having a base and upright leg members, saidclip comprising a wire bent to form an angularly disposed upper loop anda similarly disposed lower loop having side portions, said upper loopbeing bent at a greater angle than said lower loop, a pivot bar securedto a leg member of the rack and extending transversely thereof,respective ends of the pivot bar being engaged with respective sideportions of said lower loop, said upper loop having a transverse barpositioned upon the leg member above the pivot bar and at the sideopposite the pivot bar and said upper and lower loops being disposedupon opposite sides of the pivot bar.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS2,532,022 Gunderson Nov. 28, 1950 2,547,531 Melvin et a1 Apr. 3, 19512,562,777 Dreyfus July 31, 1951 2,630,923 Makar Mar. 10, 1953

